Snuff Trap feels like Bruno Mattei finally got sick of making all those interchangeable softcore romance movies and said, "You know, I'm at my best when I have no filter." Welcome back, Bruno. Or Pierre Le Blanc, as you'd like to be known as here.
After her daughter Lauren gets abducted, Michelle (Carlo Solaro, Paprika, Top Girl) must enter the nightmare world of an Italian scum cinema version of a Paul Schrader film. Yet beyond just simple pornography, there's the danger of snuff films, which seems to make sense when you're movie is called Snuff Trap. Or Snuff Killer. Or Snuff Killer - Death Live.
Actually, this movie is 8mm, except that no one's mother thought that the best way to rescue her daughter from a porn ring is to become a prostitute herself. That's because Michelle's husband is a politician and he'd rather not have the scandal of a stepdaughter going dietro la porta verde.
Soon, our protagonist finds herself going up against the leader of the pornographer, who has the astounding name of Dr. Hades (Anita Auer) and her henchman Roy.
Oh man, from 2002 to 2007, Mattei was the last Italian filmmaker standing making good old fashion exploitation films. I'm a huge fan of his late career shot on video films, which sure, are total junk, but nearly everything Bruno did was very much the same way. Yet I have such a soft spot in my heart for him, out there in his late 70s making cannibal movies in the jungle and cutting and pasting plots and even big pieces of footage from Hollywood movies. One of those films has the entire budget equal to the total of every movie Bruno ever did and absolutely none of the fun and heart. In a perfect world, we would have figured out how to put the human brain into an eternal robot and I would have paid as much as I had into the Kickstarter to keep Bruno alive, making ripoffs of whatever he could make the most money from at the time.
I mean, who else would make a movie where the password to the snuff empire's secret inner lair is bondage?
Bruno Mattei forever!
After her daughter Lauren gets abducted, Michelle (Carlo Solaro, Paprika, Top Girl) must enter the nightmare world of an Italian scum cinema version of a Paul Schrader film. Yet beyond just simple pornography, there's the danger of snuff films, which seems to make sense when you're movie is called Snuff Trap. Or Snuff Killer. Or Snuff Killer - Death Live.
Actually, this movie is 8mm, except that no one's mother thought that the best way to rescue her daughter from a porn ring is to become a prostitute herself. That's because Michelle's husband is a politician and he'd rather not have the scandal of a stepdaughter going dietro la porta verde.
Soon, our protagonist finds herself going up against the leader of the pornographer, who has the astounding name of Dr. Hades (Anita Auer) and her henchman Roy.
Oh man, from 2002 to 2007, Mattei was the last Italian filmmaker standing making good old fashion exploitation films. I'm a huge fan of his late career shot on video films, which sure, are total junk, but nearly everything Bruno did was very much the same way. Yet I have such a soft spot in my heart for him, out there in his late 70s making cannibal movies in the jungle and cutting and pasting plots and even big pieces of footage from Hollywood movies. One of those films has the entire budget equal to the total of every movie Bruno ever did and absolutely none of the fun and heart. In a perfect world, we would have figured out how to put the human brain into an eternal robot and I would have paid as much as I had into the Kickstarter to keep Bruno alive, making ripoffs of whatever he could make the most money from at the time.
I mean, who else would make a movie where the password to the snuff empire's secret inner lair is bondage?
Bruno Mattei forever!